Return of the Jedi: Rebel Alliance in House of Commons Prepares For Battle Over Vaccine Passports

The Spectator has published a full list of those Conservative MPs who’ve pledged to vote against the ‘Plan B’ measures announced earlier this week. There are currently 60, but the number is growing by the day. If the Government is going to get the measures through the House of Commons, it will need Labour votes. Here is an extract:

When the Health Secretary Sajid Javid introduced the measures in the Commons this week, he was greeted with jeers and calls for him to “resign” from his own party members. There is now a growing backbench rebellion against the Government’s proposals, with several MPs publicly denouncing the winter restrictions, which they feel are a step too far in a society protected by what Boris Johnson once called the “huge wall of immunity” from vaccines.

The full list is below.

1. Steve Baker
2. Ben Bradley
3. Brendan Clarke-Smith
4. Graham Brady
5. Philip Davies
6. Richard Drax
7. Simon Jupp
8. Stephen McPartland
9. John Redwood
10. Greg Smith
11. Dehenna Davison
12. Marcus Fysh
13. Gary Sambrook
14. Pauline Latham
15. William Wragg
16. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
17. Iain Duncan Smith
18. Christopher Chope
19. Craig Tracey
20. Robert Syms
21. Anthony Mangnall
22. Greg Clark
23. Esther McVey
24. Liam Fox
25. David Davis
26. Mark Jenkinson
27. Alicia Kearns
28. Mark Harper
29. Darren Henry
30. Steve Brine
31. Craig Mackinlay
32. Simon Fell
33. Andrew Bowie
34. David Warburton
35. Siobhan Baillie
36. David Jones
37. Tom Randall
38. Ben Spencer
39. Andrew Rosindell
40. Charles Walker
41. Douglas Ross
42. Karl McCartney

43. Anne Marie Morris
44. Johnny Mercer
45. Tom Tugendhat
46. Richard Fuller
47. Giles Watling
48. Desmond Swayne
49. Andrew Bridgen
50. Andrew Lewer
51. Christian Wakeford
52. Adam Afriyie
53. Julian Sturdy
54. Peter Bone
55. Chris Grayling
56. Chris Green
57. Tim Loughton
58. Tracey Crouch
59. Miriam Cates
60. Jackie Doyle-Price

If you would like to write to any of these MPs to express your support for their stand, or write to your own MP and urge him/her to vote against the measures, you can find out the name of your MP and how to contact them here. Han Solo Steve Baker has asked opponents of vaccine passports to convey their gratitude to MPs for taking this stand.

Stop Press: Steve Baker has written a short piece for the Critic in which he says: “I believe every MP will remember forever how they voted on this issue.”